Actor Shah Rukh Khan reportedly beat up scriptwriter/director Shirish Kunder, the husband of one his close friend and director Farah Khan, at a party thrown on Sunday night in Mumbai by actor Sanjay Dutt to celebrate the success of his filmAgneepath.

After the Shah Rukh-Salman brawl at Katrina Kaif's birthday bash in 2008, Khan again finds himself involved in a public fight. The grapevine is abuzz about SRK having punched Kunder at Dutt's party at a lounge bar.

According to reports, an inebriated Shirish was following Shah Rukh Khan around and even entered the bathroom with Khan. An irritated Khan then allegedly pinned Shirish to a sofa and punched and abused him.

According to sources Dutt who had to intervene and separate the two, also slapped Shirish for allegedly sending lewd messages to his wife Manyata and for misbehaving with a girl at the party.

Meanwhile Farah Khan's statement on the incident is as follows: "Shah Rukh has always told me that physical abuse is the worst way to sort out a problem and that it means the person who's hitting has either a personal or professional crisis going on and it saddens me to see him doing the same." (IBNLive)